251 Quotes by Hank Green

Frankly, I've worked my whole life to not be adorable with only limited success, and two adorable people dating is waaaay too cute for me.

The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.

Keep that in mind if it seems like the following events are improbably. Sometimes, weird things happens that change the course of history ... and apparently they happen to me.

I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!

[Becoming a media mogul] would have eroded my soul and turned me into a smooth rock of sadness.

The story of humanity is not a story of a few people who had huge, gigantic effects on the world. That's only the story we hear, because it's the easy story to tell. Caring for ourselves and other people is the only thing that has ever mattered to the future of our species.

You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce.

You're supposed to believe all of the same things as your friends and allies. These days, everything is a battle, and so you can't give any credibility to your opponents' views. Even when you do understand where your opponents are coming from, you're not supposed to say so.

We treat our cats for diseases that are far less preventable than diseases children die of. But no one thinks about it because, ultimately, we aren't actually acting to prevent the cats' suffering; we're acting to prevent our own suffering.